Bananas
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (General)Transcript
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a schoolboy takes a banana from his pocket. Veto might get. The lawyers travelled seven hours by motor car to get here, but his banana has journeyed for many more. For 17 days, it was packed with a million of its fellows in a ship from Colombia, where it was grown. Man's close relationship with the banana began before recorded history. Neolithic Fisher folk, in what is now called Malaysia, had already explored their users food and fibre 12,000 years ago. From thence, we can block the bananas inexorable spread across the globe by the third century BC Alexander the Great was most impressed by the bananas of the wise men of India. Over the next 800 years, Polynesian seafarers candied fruit on their primitive boats all the way to Madagascar. Carried by Adam traders, it traversed the African continent to become very well established. By the 14th century, when Portuguese adventurers arrived, they took it to the Canaries from where the Spanish and the British transported it to the Caribbean and other parts of the Americas. Did you know that end to end? The bananas grown last year, would circle the globe 2000 times and 80% of these were in fact eaten by people in the countries who grew them back at the zoo. Take a closer look at the boy's banana. It's five times as long as it is broad. But here's a queer thing. His friend has also taken out his banana. You see, it's much shorter and is blunted the end. What is this? Well, his is an altogether different variety of banana cultivated to grow in cooler climes. Called the Cavendish, it's grown extensively of Brazil and the Canaries. This hardy fruit can even be grown in the glass houses of ice and which are warmed by hard organic rocks.